The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
CLARENCE DARROWIt is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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